Tacitus Quotes
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The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.
P. J. O'Rourke -
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
Jack Vance -
In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
W. Richard Stevens -
I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
Bam Margera -
The biggest misconception in the hip-hop industry is that people are only focused on the money. We should just be happy for everybody that is working in the hip-hop culture.
Fat Joe -
Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
R. J. Cutler -
As a symbol of love it does not quite work for her, since its overwhelming beauty demands a passive response that is irritating to the adventurous.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
We have to acknowledge that those past human right abuses existed and so we can't go forward without looking back, and understanding that was enormous problem, not just for America but also problem for the Indonesian people...
Barack Obama -
Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.
Linus Torvalds -
I want to be inside your heaven.
Carrie Underwood -
All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists in bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.
Lin Yutang
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few
Benjamin Disraeli -
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anais Nin -
I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.
Kirk Douglas -
What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.
Billy Crystal -
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft -
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
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I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.
Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes -
Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
Bruce Babbitt -
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
Bayard Rustin -
Art is activism.
Angie Thomas -
The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.
Barbara Holland -
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
Tacitus